Because you can easily remember times when it rained at the beach,you assume that rainy days are common at the beach.What tendency is responsible for this judgment?
A) Representativeness heuristic
B) Availability heuristic
C) Maximizing strategy
D) Satisficing strategy
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Q95: After you start to dislike someone, almost everything the person says or does seems like further evidence of bad character.Which tendency are you demonstrating?
A)Confirmation bias
B)Framing effect
C)Maximizing strategy
D)Base-rate information
Q96: Although a particular medicine is no more effective than a placebo, a physician remembers cases when patients improved, and therefore considers the medicine effective.What tendency is occurring here?
A)Functional fixedness
B)Maximizing strategy
C)Confirmation bias
D)The framing effect
Q97: Because you can easily think of examples
Q98: After you cough a few times,you suddenly
Q99: The "confirmation bias" is the tendency to do what?
A)Express too much confidence in your answers on difficult questions.
B)Do something you won't enjoy, just because you already paid for it.
C)Look for evidence to support your current belief
D)Answer a question differently, depending on how someone phrases it.
Q101: The "framing effect" is the tendency to do what?
A)To overestimate the accuracy of your answers to difficult questions
B)To answer a question differently when it is phrased differently
C)To overlook base-rate information
D)To think of an object only in terms of the most common way of using it
Q102: What evidence argues against the idea that
Q103: You continue playing a boring video game because it was expensive and you don't want to waste the money.This action is an example of what?
A)Framing effect
B)Functional fixedness
C)Sunk cost effect
D)Availability heuristic
Q104: Under which circumstances are people most likely to make a risky decision?
A)When isolated from other people they know
B)To gain something of value
C)To avoid losing something of value
D)When dealing with highly important matters
Q105: After waiting in line for an hour to buy tickets, you discover that the tickets cost more than you wanted to pay.You buy them anyway, to avoid wasting that much time.What tendency does this show?
A)Confirmation bias
B)Functional fixedness
C)Sunk cost effect
D)Framing effect
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